I'm a total sucker for twists on fairy tales (or twisted fairy tales as the case may be) and this is definitely the second. Turgeon is a beautiful storyteller and she definitely left me wanting more of her dark fantasy tales.

A different take on Rapunzel and Snow White that turned out really good :). If it hadn't been for work and sleep, I would've read this in one sitting :).

I recognized some elements from the original tales along the way with Miss Turgeon's own twist on them... I loved how she took some things and made them her own :).

You get a sense of doom/foreboding from the prologue, It's not a light story it does have some darker moments... there's a couple sex scenes but nothing explicit.

There's plenty of secrets in this story, one near the end surprised me and realize how good Mathena was at keeping her secrets.

Mathena: She keeps her past a close secret from Rapunzel, telling her she took her away from her real mother to keep her safe. Rapunzel and her have a nice cozy life in the forest, helping out women in need until Prince Josef comes along.

The twist of Rapunzel having magic and being a witch, LOVED it :).

It's a short-ish book but there's plenty of atmosphere and twists to the story that keeps you turning the pages. I loved how she fleshed out everyone and that none of the characters are one-dimensional, everyone has depth to them and jumps off the page.

One or two twists/secrets I expected and kinda predicted but there were a couple I didn't see coming.

One character's death is mentioned only in a short period, no more than a passage on one page so I didn't really "feel" for his death, I was sad for another MC but I wasn't invested myself really.

Would recommend, it's sort of a re-telling/mish mash of of fairytales but everything fits and flows together nicely into a new tale :).

There is implied rape and another instance where its mentioned, just to warn ya.

Would recommend, happy reading!

Rapunzel as the Evil Witch from Snow White?

So many yes words just came from my mouth.

Rapunzel lives in the woods with her 'foster' mother. They gather herbs and help the villages women with their men troubles and grow vegetables. Mathena has told Rapunzel stories from her birth..about how her parents were horrible to her and that she saved her and took her to raise.
Then one day Rapunzel stumbles upon the handsome prince. You would think after hearing all the villages stories about how stupid men were that she would leave him alone...but no. Her heart goes pitter patter.
She must see him again!
Mathena locks her in the tower so that she can't run off with him.


You know that crap doesn't work with a teenage girl so Rapunzel drops down her magic hair and there is the prince!



Spoiler alert~ She doesn't use the frying pan. They do the bangity bang.

Then Rapunzel finds out that the prince is going to marry another chick because that's what princes do to save their kingdoms. Princes are sorta stupid. (This one is extra stupid)

Then Rapunzel is super depressed and some bad stuff happens.

But alas! Now the queen is dead and guess who shows up wanting to marry Rapunzel?!

Now you have to read the story to see if Rapunzel beats the snot out of Prince or just eats Snow White's heart.


Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.

I really enjoyed this novel...until I got to the completely unnecessary and horrible gang rape that occurs. It did nothing to further the plot, or change the tone of the novel with the exception that I immediately stopped reading. Rape is not a plot device.